Self-soaping washboard



` March 4 1924.

w. ANDERssoN SELF soAPING wAsHBoARD Filed Sept. 19. 1922 Patented Mr me j maca unire ric.

WILHELM ADERSSON, F PEARSON, WASHINGTON.

SELF-SOAPING VIASHBOARD.

Application filed September 19, 1922. Serial No. 589,173.

To all whom/imag concern.' ported and actuated by a leaf spring 13 Be it known that WILHELM ANDERS/SON, a which is preferably hingedly mounted at 14 citizen of Finland, residing at Pearson, in upon the wash board frame or other fixed the county of Kitsap and State of Washingobject adjacent to the end of the soap seat ton, has invented new and useful Improveand is spanned by soap rods'17 forming a 55 ments in Self-Soaping Washboards, of which grating against which the front surface of the following is a specification. the bar of soap indicated at 18 bears so that The object of the invention is to provide 'a with the exception of the practically engagesoap holding and feeding attachment for able portion of the soap surface covered by wash boards whereby the operative or exsaid rods the entire area thereof is exposed 60 posed surface of a cake of soap may be held for contact with fabrics rubbed thereover in at all times in a fixed relation to the planev the operation of moving them across the of the rubbing surface of the board regardrubbing surface of the board, to take up the less of the gradual wearing away of the soap necessary amount of the soap for cleansing due to the use thereof in the washing operapurposes. 65 tions, and in this connection to provide a The renewal or replacement of the soap soap holding means adapted to form a peror introduction of a fresh bar thereof may be manent part of a wash board into which a effected by releasing the free end of the folbai' of soap may readily be introduced and lower carrying an actuating spring and 2e which when in place is protected except at swinging said follower out of the soap seat, 70 its forward surface which is located suband when the follower is replaced it is obvistantially in the plane of the rubbing surous that the tendency thereof under the tenface of the board; and with these objects in sion of the actuating spring is to force and view the invention consists in a construction hold the bar snugly in contact with the stop and combination of parts of which a prerods so that as it wears away in use the sur- 75 ferred embodiment is shown in the accomface ofthe bar is maintained substantially panying drawings, wherein in the plane of the rubbing surface of the Figure l is a view of a wash board having board and as the follower is `of an area a-pa soap holding means constructed in accordproximating that of the soap receiving seat ance with the invention and arranged at the the practically complete and economical use top of the rubbing surface of the board. of the bar of soap may be effected.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the In the modified construction or arrangesame. ment indicated in Figure 5 the soap holding Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on and feeding means having substantially the the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figsame features as above described is disposed S5 ure 1 or longitudinally of the soap holder. with its length parallel with that of the Figure 4 is a rear view of a portion of the wash board, and therefore in order to avoid board. obstruction to the fabrics in rubbing them Figure 5 is a view of a wash board showover the exposed surface of the soap bar the io ing the soap holder arranged at one side of stop rods 17a are disposed longitudinally of 90 the rubbing surface. the seat instead of transversely as. in the The soap holding means which may be form of the device illustrated in Figure 1, used 'in connection with a wash board of any and a portion of the rubbing surface of the well known or conventional type such as board is cut away for the exposure of the that illustrated at 10 in the drawing consists soap bar. Y v essentially of a rearwardly open frame 11 Having described the invention, what is set into and secured to the frame of the claimed as new and useful is wash board and having parallel sides 11aL A wash board having an open soap seat and pins 11b to define a soap seat in which adapted for the reception of soap in bar so operates a follower plate or board 12 supform and spanned at its front side substanl@ tally in the plane of the rubbing plane of the board by stop rods for limiting the for- Ward movement of a soap bar, a follower fitted in the soap seat for Contact with a 5 contained soap bar, and a follower actuating and Carrying spring hingedly mounted for supporting :the follower, incontact with the rear side of a, soap bar mounted in the seat, means being provided for securing the free end` of said spring in its operative position. 10

ln testimony whereof he afixes his signa,- ture.

WILHELM ANDERSSON. 

